>I'm looking at using the "@" symbol
Don't. Restrict yourself to alphanums and '_'.
PB
Res wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone have a reference to what is regarded a legal valid chars
> for the MySQL database username?
>
> You can imagine what google shows me, everything totally irrelevant, as
> usual. The best I can find is using hyphen and percents...
>
> I'm looking at using the "@" symbol, if I enclose it in quotes as such
> 'foo@stripped'@'localhost' would this work like with other special
> chars like "%", in test this works fine, adding, authing, and
> deleting, but is this legal? Could there be downsides to using this
> format? Could something I've not considerd break?
>
> TIa
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